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An app for just Notifications, PM alerts, and maybe friends online would be a nice start, and more achievable than a full blown app. Actually an app that has several "dashboards", eg replicating some of the community changes, news headlines, top threads, friend updates, etc would be nice. The hard part would be when the app has to do too much "stuff".

-------------------The further back you can look, the farther ahead you can see. <paraphrased>- Winston Churchill

On our end we're painfully aware that a Neo app would be very useful to lots of people, but we're facing a problem that many independent small groups in other industries have faced as those industries matured: the production quality and production cost of Neoseeker as a site is higher every year, and apps represent yet another set of platforms we have to support.

A full blown app that had all of our site's features would be really hard to do and probably really painful to maintain. A smaller suite of apps that target key painpoints might be more doable, but then we need to identify those painpoints. For me a hybrid model targetting the biggest pain points could include some examples of:

being able to update your status or easily upload images to your gallery

being able to see a list of PMs and threads maybe

clicking on any items in the app would load the mobile site.

This type of hybrid model is already very hard for us to fathom making right now, but only by leveraging the mobile website can we hope to have any app ability at all.

One other avenue I've considered is making neoforums compliant with Tapatalk API requirements, which might help. That might be a pretty big project in of itself.

I'm also very interested to improve mobile mode to the point where an app is a "nice to have" not "must have" and we'll devote significant parts of the latter part of 2k13 on that project. Basically, in today's world you have to develop the main site, and the main site has to be even better than ever before. You have to make sure mobile works well, which is like making another site. And then you need apps, which is like yet another site per OS. So Desktop web vs mobile web vs iOS app vs Android app is like developing 4 versions of Neoseeker instead of 1. It's pretty crazy, yet we have to figure it out.

Edit: Jun 27, 13 7:39pm

-------------------The further back you can look, the farther ahead you can see. <paraphrased>- Winston Churchill

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